 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...judicial courts of the United States authorizes the supreme court " to issue writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States." The secretary of state, being a person holding an office... | |
 | William Dunlap - Dutch - 1840 - 546 pages
...proceeding as courts of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, and to issue writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed by, or persons holding offices under, the authority of the United States. This court, and each of its... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1841 - 516 pages
...Courts, when proceeding as courts of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, and writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States. — The trial of issues in fact in the Supreme Court, in... | |
 | George Watterston - Washington (D.C.) - 1842 - 254 pages
...Courts, when acting as courts of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, and writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States. A final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court... | |
 | United States - Session laws - 1845 - 816 pages
...hibition. courts of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, and writs of mandamus, (d) of Mandamus. in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United I States. SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That all the before-mentioned... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...proceeding as courts of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, and to issue writs of mamdo,tmis, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office under the authority of the United States.* This court, and each of its judges, have power to grant... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1851 - 828 pages
...authorized by statute of the Federal Legislature, among other things, to issue writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law. to any courts appointed, or persons holding offices under the authority of the United States. A plain simple proceeding, before a court competent... | |
 | Richard Swainson Fisher - Geography - 1852 - 752 pages
...Courts, when proceeding as Courts of Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction ; and writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law to any courts appointed or persons holding office under the authority of the United States. The trial of issues in fact in the Supreme Court in all actions... | |
 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1852 - 736 pages
...of 1789, it is provided 'that the supreme court shall have power to issue writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office under the authority of the United States. The issuing of a mandamus to courts is the exercise of an... | |
 | RICHARD S. FISHER - 1853 - 638 pages
...Courts, when proceeding as Courts of Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction'; and writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law to any courts appointed or persons holding office under the authority of the United States. The trial of issues in fact in the Supreme Court in all actions... | |
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to issue writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States. 
